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  2. STRANGE STORIES.

    From Wilkesbarre, Pennylvania, the news comes that Mr. Reese Wiggles, who claimed to be the smallest man in the world, died at a home near ...

    Article : 133 words
  3. GREAT GUNS.

    Mr H. W. Wilson writes in the "Daily Mail":— The British public has heard much about the Dreadnought, that gigantic ...

    Article : 1,033 words
  4. KOEPENICHO'S DUPES.

    The police are looking for a man believed to be a Spaniard, who has perpetrated several impudent swindles in various parts of England (writes the "Daily ...

    Article : 1,364 words
  5. BURNING A STEP-DAUGHTER.

    At Edinburgh recently Isabella Astbury, residing at Georgie cad, Edinburgh, was sentenced to four months imprisonment for having illtreated ...

    Article : 72 words
  6. SHAKESPEARE OR RUTLAND ?

    Dr Karl Bleibtreu's new book, in which he announces his discovery that Roger Earl of Rutland was the author of all the plays ascribed for ...

    Article : 752 words
  7. BURGOMASTER IN A FIX.

    Since the Koepenick affair, burgomasters on the Continent have been lighting very shy of orders transmitted by persons in uniform. Owing to ...

    Article : 267 words
  8. TRAGEDY OF A WRECK.

    The New York correspondent of the London "Express" gives further particulars of a tragic event which was the subject of a cable message ...

    Article : 213 words
  9. EPIDEMIC OF FIRES.

    Four young men stood in the dock, of Croydon Police Court on 16th November, and their presence in the means the removal of a nightmare ...

    Article : 632 words
  10. THE PHANTOM SHIP

    Another blow against time-honored traditions has been struck by the iconoclasts of science, says the Washington correspondent of the "San ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. DETERIORATION OF FRUIT.

    Australian orchardists are greatly interested in the way disease develops in fruit when kept for any length of time. It is known that fruits which showed ...

    Article : 232 words
  12. GRUESOME DISCOVERY.

    A remarkable prosecution was opened late in November, before the Tottenham magistrates, when, an Edmonton woman, Jessie Bayer, was charged ...

    Article : 385 words
  13. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.

    Signorina Rosa Cardoni, a prepossessing, girl of 17, had a rather remarkable, escape from death in Rome the other day. She was standing on ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. MARKETING FRUIT.

    Fruit growers in England are taking note of how the Americans are marketing their fruit, and it is almost certain that the American methods will be ...

    Article : 274 words
  15. A STORY OF MUDDLE.

    Legal circles in Madrid are greally excited over an extraordinary complicated law suit which is occupying the attention of the courts there. In ...

    Article : 224 words
  16. GREAT GERMAN LINER.

    The newest steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Kronprinzessin Cecilie will be launched at the Vulcan Works, says the Stettin correspondent of the ...

    Article : 313 words
  17. AN ELABORATE HOAX.

    A joke that would have delighted Theodore Hook has been played upon the district of Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Large posters on walls and trees announced ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. A MARQUIS CABMAN.

    According to the French papers there has just passed away a man who was a distinguished example of the fallen great. This is an old cabman who plied for hire ...

    Article : 236 words
  19. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

    At the Constitutional Club, on the 27th November (states the "Times") a discussion was opened by Professor Hewins on "Preferential Trade Arrangements and ...

    Article : 722 words
  20. CHINESE LABOR IN ENGLAND.

    The recent arrival of thirty-two Chinese at Blackwall presents a nice problem for the Liberal Government. The men are practically destitute ...

    Article : 381 words
  21. THE FIRST COACHWOMAN.

    After all the interest taken in the Parisian lady who has adopted the profession of cab-driving, there comes the discovery that she is not, after all, the first woman ...

    Article : 132 words
  22. LOST IN A SNOWSTORM.

    The Cuneo correspondent of the Milan "Secolo" records a remarkable rescue from death of an octogenarian named Sebastiano Lau[?]ti ...

    Article : 222 words
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